Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa by Ioan James (PDF)

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The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled have made important contributions to physics, either through their ideas, through their teaching or in other ways. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but when read in sequence the biographies, which are organised chronologically, convey in human terms something of the way in which physics was created. Scientific and mathematical detail is kept to a minimum, so the reader who is interested in physics, but perhaps lacks the background to follow technical accounts, will find this collection an inviting and easy path through the subject’s modern development.

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⭐Of course I understand that Ioan James’s intention of writing this book is to give us a more ” human ” aspect about the physicists and not a work on the theory of physics. I fully agree. However he should at least stateat least very briefly about the achievement of the great physicist!! Take for an example, in describing Ampere, he does not even mention about the Ampere’s law!!! I think at least in describing various physicists, he should at least state briefly about what contribution of those hysicists. Just on sentence about the equation of the laws would make this book far more interesting! Otherwise, just mention the date of birth, when the phyicist went to univerisity, when he married, when he died etc. I would ask, then what make this physicists worthy of a brief biography and separae them from just an ordinary people?????????????????

⭐The book does what the author intended, it covers the lives of the physicists not their most well known achievements. It was interesting because i was reading Einstein:His life and His Universe by Iscaacson at the same time and this book summarized fairly accurately the accounts described in Iscaason’s full biography of Einstein. I gave it a 4 of 5 because it was a great textbook for my class but alas it did over summarize certain physicists of their only commonly known achievement (regarding the only other review at the time of writting)

⭐Excellent job.

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